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Photo on left was taken April 18, 1915. When Eddie was with the Federal League St. Louis Terrriers.---BB-Reference
------------------------1914---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1916: St. Louis Browns.

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Despite being favorably viewed by some of sabermetricians' favorite tools (WAR, PRAA, Win Shares etc.,) very few have Plank in their top 25. In fact, Plank's WAR is 22nd all time. I have tried very hard to find some reasons in which Plank is viewed to have gotten so much support by his team's defenses, but have found nothing to drop Plank out of the top-25 realm. In my opinion, a very underrated pitcher.

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Is it true that Plank was so green upon reaching the majors that umpire Tom Connolly had to come out to the mound during a game and show him how to pitch without balking every delivery?

"No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”

"No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”